Check Point Advisories

Macromedia Flash Media Server Administration Service Denial of Service (CVE-2005-4216)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2005-354
Date Published: 14 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2005-4216
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Macromedia Flash Media Server software provides streaming media capabilities and an environment for creating and delivering interactive media applications. The Flash Media Server can be administered through an administration server that listens on TCP port 1111 by default. There exists a denial of service vulnerability in Macromedia Flash Media Server. The vulnerability exists due to an error in the way that the affected server handles malformed data. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending a crafted message to the server, causing its termination thereby creating a denial of service condition. Upon receiving the malicious request, the Flash Media Administration Server process will terminate. The service will not resume until it is restarted manually. Until such time as the service is restarted, the administration functionality of the affected server will be unavailable, all other services provided by the Flash Media Server will be unaffected.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Macromedia Flash Media Server Administration Service Denial of Service protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Adobe Products Violation.
Attack Information:  Macromedia Flash media server administration service denial of service

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